New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-03
= NEW LETTRE DE CACHET.
p.vMoNp DE sELLIEREs THE VICTIM OF
INFAMOUS RELATIVES

m. incarceration Of Baron Raymond dc Seiiefes In
r,vate lunati. asylum on medical certificate anu
an order signed by his aunt, the duchess DO Derg.
bs sster the Princess de Sagan, is the scandal OF
.ba h ,ur Baron de Sellieres was thought 90 little
-,ad and such keen speculator that many persons
.,.r.cted he had got his family to declare him
fanatic In order to save him from the consequence OF
.ous financial plunges, which the most knowing men
NJ Wall Street any European Stock Exchange might
have made 1t now. however, appears that the women
If hrs family, whose ways he did not like, ana the
horrors of whose lives he threatened to expose 1t they
emit on treating him as an enemy aud badgering
him with litigation, really conspred against him to
leck him up Baron Raymond de Sellieres is the sou
Of manufacturer of military rugs used az blankets
nv soldiers His father was made Baron by mistake
nv charles K when that King vas returning from
nsipe crowned at Rheims The King, when he dis
covered that he had ennobled the wrong man, gave
on the spot the brcvet of nobility to his coach
man. The rugma ker married Nancy Jewess named
Frauck. ana fr,m her the Princess de Sagan, the
Baron RAYMOND and their brother, the Baron Franck
de Seeres, inherited the high hooked noses, fa1or
faces and intensely keen eyes, which always gn' up
at the sight of brio abrac II ever tnere was
vain old screw it was the Baron who was created by
mistake. He like old Amschel Rothschild OF Frank
fort wished his children enter into close comoina-
others hands in every possible way, in banking
notca and social affairs, and in all family matters
To keep them associated in their everyday lives ne
beoueathed to the the splendid Castle OF Meiio,
which he furnished In the choicest manner and hsted
with works of art The library there is one OF the
finest private rooms In the world. Old DE selheres
added wing to the building which, he arranged, was
10 belong tor her lite to the Princess de Sagan and
then revert to her brothers BE also lett her OUTSIDE
of her legal share Of his fortune the mansion IN the
Fanhourg st. German, built by Hope, the Anglo
Dutch banker, for his Arlesenne mistress, whom 10
finally married. and who his death became the WIG
Of Comte do Rapp, and with him tumbied into
poverty.
WELL things went smoothly enough IN the associ-
alton of the brothers Seleres and the Princess do
Saran until the Youngest Baron married Diana de
Gallifet and Baron Raymond, voting the Roya.ists
moor Iot and the Bonapart;sts not uuch better went
over to the Republic. He held all kinds OF reaction
stupia and unpatriotic and chose for his intimate
friends brilliant Republicans belonging to the po-
ltca the artistic or the literary world he nau
Jewish activity in business matters, and the jews
ken tor se.ing " here money was to be MADE. oank
had been founded by old De Sellieres in connection
with the rug factory, and it greatly prospered But
Il did not do so we'll Of late years, and NJ de Maohy,
now Regent OF the Bank Of France, who had begun
RAYMOND to quit the family concern As he had long
snc. ceased to esteem brother and sister, and as the
marriage OF the former had led to estrangement he
followed NJ do Machy's advice. No sooner was the
partnsrsbp than he found himself the butt
of the hottest enmity. He was pestered with small
ramon strances about all sorts OF things and was
irritated at finding himie elf spoken OF as msdman
by the Princess de Ssgan and bis brother and their
friends 1t occurred to him that perhaps they were
thinking of getting him declared lunatic and incar
cerated as such Nothin is easier under the unacy
law OF Louis Philippe than to do this. that measure
having been so framed by the King and his adviser
as to enable the madhouse to take the place OF the
demolished Bastille.
Baron de Seleres, to protect himself from posi-
bic conspiracy vent to the United States with all Ms
private papers to get himself naturszed All Amer
can citizen When he was the other side OF the
Atlantic he made speculative Investments OF heavy
kind which have turned out good ones. He was ASSOC
cisted ia business with Mr. Charles I. Livermore
The security in ready money which he deposited IN
Coutts's bank in London came to So,O0O,O0o when
he returned to France he was-driyen wild by the
manner i'm which the friends of his family treated
him. All he had to say about the 10.0OO-acre wheat
fields in Dakota the Yellowstone Park the illimtaoie
resources of America, was set down as the Visions OF
mailman. He found that his sister, brother and
sister-in-law had persuaded nearly every one "ho
was on intimate terms with him that poor Raymond
was mad and likely to fall into the hands OF Yankee
sharpers" This so dashed him to fury that he
threatened to embark in lawsuit which would enable
him to air the scandals Of their lives AS they knew
him to be of iron will and persevering in all his
undertakings. they dreaded an exposure
believe one would have to go back to the Golden
House in the time OF the degenerate Caesars to find
parallels fer the Princess dc Sagan her bosom friend
the Marause de Galet, and for the Baron Franck De
Selieres who married the daughter OF that lady The
Princess de Sagan married member of the DE Ialiey
rand family who would not stay with her when she
embarked on her of vanity and-l will not call
spades spades-gayety The Prince is now fortuneless
When he was quitting bis wife he caused all her
domestics to be brought into the hall and said TO
them: am leaving this house for good and wish
you to observe that am taking othing with me but
an umbrella and few suits OF clothes ia this port
manteau" NJ de Sagan Is styled |" 10 Prince de Chic
He Is very poor and makes his living out OF the
Auteul racecourse tor which obtained concession
from the City of Paris He is probably not ViItuous
man, but according to the ideas OF French gentlemen
he is man of honor. When both the Marquise de
Galfet and the Princess de Sagau were carrying on
with the Prince OF Wales, the last named lady offered
her husband 900 to go to a dinner she was giving
In compliment II. r. II. The oher was refused, and
the Prince de Sagan the whole evening OF the
dinner party remained at his club. When the wife
was in 1873 to eotsrtain at a bal the Princess OF
Wales as we'll as the coming King OF England, she
again offered the Prince de ssgAn who she heard was
hard up $15 900 simply TO stand with her on the
steps OF her hall door when she was receiving their
ROYAL Hlghresses The ball would have been failure
had not Albert Edward gone round to his lady friends
and begged them to attend II order to keep Alex
andra ia countenance. All this will show you with
what terror the prospect OF revelations must have
been looked forward to by the Franck
Sellieres group
A circumstance adduced to show that Baron Ray
mond was mad" was that since his return IRON
New. York he never occupied the small detached